Hell No! I Am Not Black, and You Are Not White: Hell No to Crime

By Admire T. Kadenge

Why call me Black, when it means Nigger and 'like the Devil' ? Black is not a race, but a camouflaged, sugar-coated curse that is just encoded as the word 'evil' in 'Devil'. We need to break, reject and obliterate it.

 

 

• Language: English
• Publisher: AuthorHouse
• Release date: Oct 11, 2006
• ISBN: 9781467031585

Admire T. Kadenge

Admire Kadenge is a Zimbabwean-born Civil/Mechanical Inspector and Real Estate Consultant. A father of two teenagers, Shingai and Nyasha (key ingredients to his love of his life). He is a firm believer in building bridges over the structures in society that divide us.

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First published by AuthorHouse 10/5/2006

ISBN: 1-4208-7660-0 (sc)

ISBN: 9781467031585 (ebk)

Printed in the United States of America

Bloomington, Indiana

Edited By Arabla Welbeck

Contents

Introduction

Chapter 1

Chapter 2

Chapter 3

Chapter 4

Chapter 5

Chapter 6

Chapter 7

Chapter 8

Chapter 9

Chapter 10

Chapter 11

Chapter 12

Introduction

I am troubled by the different versions of racism in America. The struggle to end racism continues today and I am adding my efforts to it. I have joined in the discussion to end it. I have written this book in acknowledgement of all who have paved the way before me to grant me the freedom to write. I am acknowledging their sacrifices and hard work in the different areas of their achievements in the civil rights movements. So many of them lost their lives. Others are not even recognized in history books. I am thankful for their lives.

It is certainly not possible to discuss all the different facets of racism that exist today or those that I have personally observed or even experienced. I plan to concentrate only on one area that is taken for granted and that has often been overlooked. It is the use of the words Black and White as racial classifications for people of African and European origin respectively.

In discussing my concerns, I will base my opinions on the universally recognized Webster’s Dictionary, specifically the Merriam Webster’s Collegiate Dictionary, Tenth Edition. The Webster’s Dictionary is one of the most popular dictionaries of today and is respected and authorized to be used in schools to educate our children by providing definitions of the English language worldwide. If I accomplish my task, you should be able to join me in proclaiming, Hell No! I am not Black and you are not White or I am not White and you are not Black, as the case maybe.

Chapter 1

I was born in Zimbabwe. My parents, grand parents and great grand parents were all born in southern Africa. We all did not have any inter-racial marriages. My race is African. IT IS NOT BLACK. The dictionary’s most accurate definition of race for my topic of discussion, which is racial classification, is a division of mankind possessing traits that are transmissible by descent and sufficient to characterize it as a distinct human type. The Merriam Webster’s Collegiate Dictionary only defines African as:

1. A native or inhabitant of Africa

2. A person, and especially a BLACK person of immediate or remote African ancestry

The dictionary fails to define or classify African as a RACE of people originating from Africa.

I was blessed to come to America decades ago. Since then, I have filled out application forms in schools and places of employment, as well as different types of legal paperwork. As I filled out these forms, I was required to provide my racial identity. Whilst providing my racial identity to colleges and employers, I had to unwillingly check Black as being my race. There were spaces to check for the different races such as White, Black, Hispanic, Asian etc. Some documents did provide a space to specify other. Therefore asking me to identify my race as Black at that time was and is still a standard practice.

As time passed I started to understand the problems and frustrations these classifications were raising. Most of the problems stemmed from the misrepresentations of racial classification. For some reason Africans, African-Americans and other members of the African Diaspora had come to accept the label Black.

Below are issues raised by some African-Americans as well as some general concerns I encountered before writing this book.

1. Why was a person’s race called African when he was born in the United States and he had mixed racial traits and characteristics from other races?

2. Why did some African-Americans still call themselves Niggers?

3. Some African-Americans did not want to be called Africans or African-Americans. They preferred to be called Blacks or Black Americans. They did not want to be connected to Africa, because Africa was plagued with problems they did not wish to be associated with.

4. Some African-Americans preferred to just be